Brainstorm a list of some of the challenges teachers may encounter when involving students in the assessment process.
| Problem |
Solutions |
| Maturity of students and objectivity in assessing own work and each others' work |
Rubric must provied concrete objective criteria for evaluation |
| Student may not have adequate acquired knowledge to evaluate content |
Pre activities to build background knowledge |
| Difficulty isolating evaluative criteria - either too many or too few |
Set limits to the number of criteria (e.g. 8-10 items in the rubric) |
| Too many differing opinons on what final product should be |
Provide a model final product |
| Too easy or too hard |
provide models |
| Students can't agree |
Split into groups and each have power of one assessment |
| Not a practical option |
provide limited choices |